HEAVY SPOILERS …
Has anyone read ちょっと今から仕事辞めてくる？ I was really enjoying the book and sort of getting the gist of it until the final 50 pages or so when I couldn’t really follow some of the most important plot points. But the writing was so poignant that I really want to understand exactly what happened!!
So spoilers and heavy topics ahead -
I got most of everything from the first half - 青山’s frustrations with work, how when he’s about to jump to the platform this guy claiming to be his classmate saves him, how they become friends, he finds out that actually he wasn’t his classmate, and how he finds that the real ヤマモト had killed himself before - and he goes to Osaka and meets ヤマモト’s mom and finds that they had had very similar backgrounds it could really have been him. And ヤマモト saves him after he finds out his 先輩 is the one that backstabbed him in the company and he goes and is about to jump the roof. 青山 still doubts if ヤマモト is a 幽霊 but apparently the fact that he is very physical and warm dissuades him from that (but then who is he??). And ヤマモト makes him see that it’s not true that he is alone, that there are people that he’d deeply hurt and in the end he quits the company in that monolog and finds a note from ヤマモト - and ヤマモト is gone.
Fast forward and he is now training to be a mental health counselor… and a teacher?? I guess I got the main message of the toxic work culture, of finding meaning in difficult circumstances, of reaching out… but I still don’t understand who or what ヤマモト was!!
Thank you!!